A year earlier, manufacturing made up 30 percent of events and 35 percent of initial claims.

This January, the number of manufacturing claimants was greatest in transportation equipment (57,173) and machinery (14,120). The administrative and waste services industry accounted for 12 percent of mass layoff events and associated initial claims during the month.

These data are from the Mass Layoff Statistics program and are not seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see "Mass Layoffs in January 2009" (PDF) (HTML), news release USDL 09-0185.